It is this unfortunate blindness to the fact any situation described in a
... sentence underlying every literary work will be something like “I imagine myself in and I invite you to conceive a world in which...” followed by the respective novel or poem or whatever. Although there are some problems with postulating the existence of implicit performatives, the solution - or, at ...
... sentence underlying every literary work will be something like “I imagine myself in and I invite you to conceive a world in which...” followed by the respective novel or poem or whatever. Although there are some problems with postulating the existence of implicit performatives, the solution - or, at ...
Name - Union High School
... Gothic Fiction - Portrays fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, and other “dark” subjects. Gothic literature was named for the apparent influence of the dark gothic architecture of the period on the genre. This literature gave birth to many other forms, such as suspense, ghost stories, horro ...
... Gothic Fiction - Portrays fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, and other “dark” subjects. Gothic literature was named for the apparent influence of the dark gothic architecture of the period on the genre. This literature gave birth to many other forms, such as suspense, ghost stories, horro ...
sty lec1
... • Modern stylistics has its roots in Russian Formalism and the related Prague School of the early twentieth century. • Stylistics can trace its roots to the formalist tradition that developed in Russian literary Criticism at the turn of the 20th century. Roman Jakobson’s work focused on poetic langu ...
... • Modern stylistics has its roots in Russian Formalism and the related Prague School of the early twentieth century. • Stylistics can trace its roots to the formalist tradition that developed in Russian literary Criticism at the turn of the 20th century. Roman Jakobson’s work focused on poetic langu ...
River Shore
... Mark Twain uses all these elements to maximum effect throughout the novel but nowhere more vividly and symbolically than in Huck and Jim’s ODYSSEY down the Mississippi River ...
... Mark Twain uses all these elements to maximum effect throughout the novel but nowhere more vividly and symbolically than in Huck and Jim’s ODYSSEY down the Mississippi River ...
Postmodernism and After - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... which opens and sets the tone for this collection of essays; it is a major assessment of new developments in literary culture, focusing on the evolution of the postmodern to the premodern mode, as well as highlighting the role and current popularity of cultural studies and cultural history – theoret ...
... which opens and sets the tone for this collection of essays; it is a major assessment of new developments in literary culture, focusing on the evolution of the postmodern to the premodern mode, as well as highlighting the role and current popularity of cultural studies and cultural history – theoret ...
Practice Writing Thesis Statements Instructions: Below are three
... 2002. Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Choose a novel or play in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which yo ...
... 2002. Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Choose a novel or play in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which yo ...
Overview of Graduate Courses, 2014-‐2015
... the most remarkable “afterlife.” With an early entry into the literary and theatrical canons of many European countries, Shakespeare became as familiar as native-‐born playwrights; thus, by the nineteenth c ...
... the most remarkable “afterlife.” With an early entry into the literary and theatrical canons of many European countries, Shakespeare became as familiar as native-‐born playwrights; thus, by the nineteenth c ...
“Hati-Colt”: a Chinese-oriented Literary Theory
... do not find any statement from Confucius, Liu Xie, Qian Zhongshu or James J.Y. Liu.2 There are misunderstandings and perhaps even bias shown in some Sinologists’ studies on traditional Chinese literary theory. 3 In the meantime, Chinese academics of literary theory are found having lost the ability ...
... do not find any statement from Confucius, Liu Xie, Qian Zhongshu or James J.Y. Liu.2 There are misunderstandings and perhaps even bias shown in some Sinologists’ studies on traditional Chinese literary theory. 3 In the meantime, Chinese academics of literary theory are found having lost the ability ...
Similies and Metaphors *The Most Dangerous Game*
... A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid ...
... A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid ...
Rhetorical Studies
... • Rhetoric is an instrumental use of language…. . . . Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action. For this reason, rhetorical communication is explicitly pragmatic. Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention. (Hauser) • "Rheto ...
... • Rhetoric is an instrumental use of language…. . . . Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action. For this reason, rhetorical communication is explicitly pragmatic. Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention. (Hauser) • "Rheto ...
American Literature / Assessment
... century. Writers from this time period glorified nature and celebrated individuality. Their treatment of subject was emotional rather than rational, intuitive rather than analytic. Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were popular American poets of this literary era. The name of this liter ...
... century. Writers from this time period glorified nature and celebrated individuality. Their treatment of subject was emotional rather than rational, intuitive rather than analytic. Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were popular American poets of this literary era. The name of this liter ...
Chapter I Introduction
... Literature is the total preserved writing belonging to a given language of people. Literature is the form of total writings in a period, which is notable as a form of expression. On one hand from works merely civilized and from journalistic define as a temporary writing based on the time. Al-Sadiq ( ...
... Literature is the total preserved writing belonging to a given language of people. Literature is the form of total writings in a period, which is notable as a form of expression. On one hand from works merely civilized and from journalistic define as a temporary writing based on the time. Al-Sadiq ( ...
The Nature of Literary Theory
... practical application of the former. This book is concerned primarily with the theoretical principles and concepts that form the foundation for practical methods and strategies used in literary criticism. Since the 1970s, when literary theory entered a new phase dominated by philosophy, history, pol ...
... practical application of the former. This book is concerned primarily with the theoretical principles and concepts that form the foundation for practical methods and strategies used in literary criticism. Since the 1970s, when literary theory entered a new phase dominated by philosophy, history, pol ...
Transnational Histories of Children`s Media – Literary Canon
... literature was, for instance, “singled out” as a literature of its own – with its own type of “single address” (Wall) that distinguished itself from the “throes of the written word” of the modernist canon (Rose). Some would call this a step forward – others would call it a parenthesis being question ...
... literature was, for instance, “singled out” as a literature of its own – with its own type of “single address” (Wall) that distinguished itself from the “throes of the written word” of the modernist canon (Rose). Some would call this a step forward – others would call it a parenthesis being question ...
Fragments of a media archeological history of literature
... 2) The lack of an absolute boundary between the material and immaterial history of literature, however, may be belied by the presence of an increasingly sharp gap between a "craft"/production side (involve ...
... 2) The lack of an absolute boundary between the material and immaterial history of literature, however, may be belied by the presence of an increasingly sharp gap between a "craft"/production side (involve ...
Representing the Holocaust in Film and Literature
... Topics in Francophone Culture Taught in English: Exploring Cajun and Creole Cultures in the US. (Extra $$$, Includes 6-day trip to New Orleans and Lafayette) This course, taught in English, explores the historical presence and significance of Cajun and Creole cultures in North America, in the US par ...
... Topics in Francophone Culture Taught in English: Exploring Cajun and Creole Cultures in the US. (Extra $$$, Includes 6-day trip to New Orleans and Lafayette) This course, taught in English, explores the historical presence and significance of Cajun and Creole cultures in North America, in the US par ...
Structuralism Theory
... Structuralism Framework Two important theorists form the framework (hah) of structuralism: Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Peirce gave structuralism three important ideas for analyzing the sign systems that permeate and define our experiences: 1. "iconic signs, in which the signif ...
... Structuralism Framework Two important theorists form the framework (hah) of structuralism: Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Peirce gave structuralism three important ideas for analyzing the sign systems that permeate and define our experiences: 1. "iconic signs, in which the signif ...
Literary Criticism in Reconstruction
... crucial for the meaning of the work and its cultural position. The postmodern tendencies to restore the historical presence and mutability of literary texts are – paradoxically – answered by the potentialities of virtual cyberspace, which is “in the service of postmodern detailism and microcontexts ...
... crucial for the meaning of the work and its cultural position. The postmodern tendencies to restore the historical presence and mutability of literary texts are – paradoxically – answered by the potentialities of virtual cyberspace, which is “in the service of postmodern detailism and microcontexts ...
Romance or reason?
... for relying too much on imagination. Along with the Darwin anniversaries, this year also marks the 50th anniversary of CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture. The division he drew was between the humanities and the sciences, and Snow had in mind – as the most representative of each party – the literary in ...
... for relying too much on imagination. Along with the Darwin anniversaries, this year also marks the 50th anniversary of CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture. The division he drew was between the humanities and the sciences, and Snow had in mind – as the most representative of each party – the literary in ...
Literary texts fall into several different genres all of which are
... GLOSSARY OF SELECTED LITERARY CONVENTIONS Literary texts fall into several different genres all of which are characterized by their own purpose, together with those conventions that are proper to the genre. The conventions used in a specific literary text include, for example, literary techniques an ...
... GLOSSARY OF SELECTED LITERARY CONVENTIONS Literary texts fall into several different genres all of which are characterized by their own purpose, together with those conventions that are proper to the genre. The conventions used in a specific literary text include, for example, literary techniques an ...
Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism_ Reader
... At its most basic level, reader response criticism considers readers' reactions to literature as vital to interpreting the meaning of the text. However, reader-response criticism can take a number of different approaches. A critic deploying reader-response theory can use a psychoanalytic lens, a fem ...
... At its most basic level, reader response criticism considers readers' reactions to literature as vital to interpreting the meaning of the text. However, reader-response criticism can take a number of different approaches. A critic deploying reader-response theory can use a psychoanalytic lens, a fem ...
Precious Scrolls and Folk Beliefs during the Ming and Qing
... The story of Mulian, which in the literature from Dunhuang shows a fixed form, subsequently developed in new directions, still visible in contemporary folk-literature. Probably, the genre was also popular during the Song period, as we can see from works depicting the splendor of urban life such as t ...
... The story of Mulian, which in the literature from Dunhuang shows a fixed form, subsequently developed in new directions, still visible in contemporary folk-literature. Probably, the genre was also popular during the Song period, as we can see from works depicting the splendor of urban life such as t ...